Mostra De Valencia 2019

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Fasten Your Seatbelts (Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli; Stars: Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arca, Filippo Scicchitano, Carolina Crescentini, Francesco Scianna, Carla Signoris, Elena Sofia Ricci, Paola Minaccioni, Giulia Michelini, Luisa Ranieri, Maria Sole Piccinni, Francesca Romana Verzaro, Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arca, Filippo Scicchitano)
A man and a woman with completely opposite personalities are attracted to each other but they try to ignore it. In the end, they end up giving in.
Hamam (Hamam: The Turkish Bath, Il Bagno Turko, Hamam: El Baño Turco, The Turkish Baths) (Country: Italy/Turkey/Spain; Year: 1997; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek , Stefano Tummolini, Aldo Sambrell ; Stars: Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Mehmet Gunsar)
A man in a high-stress marriage rediscovers himself after inheriting a Turkish baths.
Harem Suare (Country: Italy, France, Turkey; Year: 1999; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli; Stars: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosé, Valeria Golino, Malick Bowens, Christophe Aquillon, Serra Yilmaz, Haluk Bilginer, Pelin Batu, Ayla Algan, Nilüfer Açikalin, Meriç Benlioglu, Cansel Elcin, Basak Köklükaya, Gaia Narcisi)
Istanbul, 1904, eve of the end of the Ottoman Empire. The harem of the Sultan’s palace is a secret, female world, full of intrigues, fears, desires, friendships and betrayals.
His Secret Life (Le Fati Ignoranti, The Ignorant Fairies) (Country: Italy, France; Year: 2001; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Ozpetek; Stars: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko, Erika Blanc, Andrea Renzi, Koray Candemir, Lucrezia Valia, Filippo Nigro, Ivan Bacchi, Maurizio Romoli, Carmine Recano, Luca Calvani, Rosaria De Cicco, Edilberta Caviteno Bahia)
A happily married couple is cut short by the tragic death of the husband. The heartbroken widow discovers that her husband had been hiding something unimaginable.
Naples In Veils (Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli, Valia Santella; Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessandro Borghi, Anna Bonaiuto, Peppe Barra, Biagio Forestieri, Luisa Ranieri, Maria Pia Calzone, Carmine Recano, Lina Sastri, Isabella Ferrari, Loredana Cannata, Angela Pagano, Maria Luisa Santella, Antonio Braucci, Rosaria D'Urso)
A woman whose lover is killed, begins to glimpse a man who looks like his doppelganger.
Red Istanbul (Country: Italy, Turkey; Year: 2017; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli; Stars: Halit Ergenç, Tuba Büyüküstün, Mehmet Günsür, Nejat Isler, Ergin Bal, Beyza Baykal, Selim Bayraktar, Ipek Bilgin, Yelin Bilgin, Cemre Ebuzziya, Ayten Gökçer, Çigdem Selisik Onat, Serif Sezer, Güliz Sirinyan, Dilay Taskaya)
An acclaimed novelist who is writing a book about his family mysteriously disappears. His closest friends try to find him.
Sacred Heart (Cuore Sacro) (Country: Italy; Year: 2005; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli, Gianni Romoli; Stars: Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Di Stefano, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Poggio, Camille Dugay Comencini, Gigi Angelillo, Erika Blanc, Caterina Vertova, Stefano Santospago, Michela Cescon, Elisabetta Pozzi, Enrica Ajò, Fabrizio Apolloni, Sanghamitra Bakshi, Gianlorenzo Brambilla)
A talented and unscrupulous woman discovers her mother’s room has remained intact for 30 years after she died in mysterious circumstances.
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